Looking at the house we are in the process of moving into, the back yard drops off something horrible! As in like we are “allowed” to have a fenced in backyard that can go back 50 feet. We’ll be lucky to get even close to that! Now mind you I have not physically been to the house yet, but my husband has and he said that our backyard will be about 5 to 10 feet shorter than our neighbors. And they’re house is attached to ours!!

Soooo…. I am immediately going to start harassing the housing department to get us a couple loads of dirt brought in the level it out. I do say harassing because another lady living in my neighborhood says she has been trying to get them to bring in some dirt to fill a hole left in her yard when housing removed a dead tree!!

Then again! I have also found a group I communicate with that said there is a local organic dump that sells what they call mulch but is in reality mostly black dirt from composted yard waste. Perfect! Using that I should even be able to grow grass in pretty soon! They sell it by the truck load for $10 (as much as you can fit in your truck). I personally do not mind making a few loads, but ONLY because it will ultimately make MY yard look nicer 🙂 The only downfall of me doing it myself is then I’ll have to do all the spreading 😛 Not really my cup of tea…